Nehemiah 2:8

8and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of athe fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, bfor the good hand of my God was upon me.

Proverbs 21:1

1The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord;
he cturns it wherever he will.
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